Senior Software Engineer, Application And Language Frameworks
Chime is looking for a senior engineer to build and evolve our core messaging and low-latency data-sharing platforms the backbone of information exchange across Chime services. The Application and Language Frameworks team also owns key systems that shape the developer experience and engineering consistency, including :
- Caching Redis governance, patterns, and operational improvements
- Job Processing Async local and distributed messaging systems
- Unified Tooling Shared Rails libraries for logging, tracing, security, and other cross-cutting features, plus PII masking and schema enforcement
- Language and Engineering Excellence Ruby versioning, Jemalloc / YJIT, Rails generators, best practices, with expansion into future languages
You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure and the application layer, delivering frameworks and tooling that free product engineers to focus on features while ensuring scale, reliability, and consistency.
The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $176,490 and up to $245,100. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
In This Role, You Can Expect To
Automate everything, including upgrades, monitoring, and operations.Build tools that enable self-service both within the team and across all of Chime engineering.Build and maintain highly reliable, scalable platforms and libraries.Improve developer productivity through the introduction of new tools / automation, or improvements to existing tools / automation.Partner with product, data, and infrastructure engineering to solve cross-cutting technical challenges.Reduce operational overhead of platform services through strong collaboration with infra teams.Advise engineering teams on communication and data-sharing patterns.To Thrive In This Role, You Have
Understanding of asynchronous and synchronous data-sharing patterns (pub / sub, RPC, caching, etc.).Strong Ruby / Rails experience; Python or Go is an added bonus.Strong familiarity with AWS (including ElastiCache, SNS / SQS) and infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and Docker.Exposure to large-scale architectural patterns and mission-critical production systems.Experience working in CI / CD environments.Track record of shipping production systems as part of a team.Drive to solve complex problems end-to-end.A community mindset and passion for supporting internal engineers.Clear, effective communication skills.Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.